Word: grew
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...captain. Returning to Harvard, he took a law degree, lectured on constitutional law and jurisprudence, edited The American Law Review, practiced briefly in Boston. For 20 years he sat on the Massachusetts Supreme Court. In 1902 President Roosevelt appointed him to the U. S. Supreme Court. There he quickly grew famed for his liberal thought, for the clarity and grace of his expression, for the vigor and regularity with which he dissented from the opinions of a conservative majority. Leaving his Capitol office one day in 1932, aged 90, he said to his assistants...
...that day in convention and all next day between committee meetings, the issue of academic freedom was debated. Warier & warier grew the superintendents as they realized that the Great Issue had been neatly and publicly tied to a denunciation of Hearst "Americanism." The superintendents knew they were on a spot when they trooped into the final meeting. Secretary of Agriculture Wallace raised liberal hopes briefly by glooming over the end of capitalism. But when he was done the Resolutions Committee reported out one mild resolution on the Great Issue: "We affirm our unqualified belief in the principle of academic freedom...
...troupe went rolling year after year from one successful engagement to another, The Green Pastures grew into an enormous legend which somehow suggested the vogue of Uncle Tom's Cabin half a century ago. It played in churches, colleges, prisons, clubs, fraternal lodges as well as on legitimate stages. Biggest house played was the Shriners Auditorium (4,000 seats) in Des Moines in 1932, where also the biggest day's receipts ($11,000) were taken in. Smallest day's business ($600) was at Big Spring, Tex. Smallest theatre encountered (900 seats) was in La Crosse...
...Farfante and a man named Manuel Perez won the cigarmaking contest, she rolling her two cigars in 4 min. 35 4/5 sec., he in 2/5 sec. less. The decks were cleared for Dancer Nicki Leoni, who appeared in a disappointingly simple evening gown of native design. As the music grew faster and the dance grew hotter, she stripped off her dress bit by bit, finally emerged in a skirt and brassière of tobacco leaves-about enough to make six cigars (see cut). Later Governor Sholtz of Florida, Mayor Chancey of Tampa and many another bigwig attended a banquet...
...bunco-steerers, con men and cappers he started a saloon in Skagway, set out to captivate that leaderless town. He did it, but it was hard going. The thugs and strong-arm men he could not control gave Skagway such a bad name that the law-&-order element grew restive. Finally, when a green prospector was robbed in Soapy's own saloon, the storm gathered. A meeting of sober citizens was called. When Soapy, singlehanded, went down to remonstrate with them, his speech was cut short by a bullet...